中国和美国的考古学家在中国的南方挖掘出一些用石头制作的工具,经过鉴定,专家认为这些石头工具的制作年代是在80万年以前。这是迄今为止在亚洲地区发现的最古老的石制工具。这个发现,推翻了已往的假设。按照那种假设,当时东亚人在技术发展方面落后于其他地区的人类。大多数人类学家认为,最早制造工具的是居住在非洲的早期人类。就目前所知,最早的工具是用石头制作的简单石心和 Chinese and American archaeologists excavated some tools made of stone in the south of China. After being identified, experts believe that these stone tools were manufactured 800,000 years ago. This is by far the oldest stone tool found in Asia. This finding overthrows the old assumption. Following that assumption, East Asians lagged behind humans in other areas in terms of technological development at the time. Most anthropologists believe that the earliest people who made tools were early humans living in Africa. As far as we know, the earliest tools were simple stone hearts made of stone